LEALMAN INNOVATION ACADEMY

LEALMAN INNOVATION ACADEMY is a very small senior high in ST PETERSBURG, Florida, one of the schools within PINELLAS. The school educates 307 students in grades 5 through 12. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 1,035 students each, so LEALMAN INNOVATION ACADEMY sits 70% leaner than that benchmark.

PINELLAS runs 151 schools in total, collectively educating 87,955 students. LEALMAN INNOVATION ACADEMY is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, LEALMAN INNOVATION ACADEMY shows that 67% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 18% White, 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 10%.

On the resource side, LEALMAN INNOVATION ACADEMY shows 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting LEALMAN INNOVATION ACADEMY tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 80% of students at LEALMAN INNOVATION ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Pinellas County (around 45%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Pinellas County indicate median household earnings sit near $72,646, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Pinellas County runs 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,955 students), of which LEALMAN INNOVATION ACADEMY is one.

JOHN M. SEXTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 40%: 513 students in 2018 compared to 307 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share grew from 57% to 67%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 today.

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